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Re: Who the hell burglarizes a house nowadays?

i hear of break ins in my extended circle of friends all the time. mostly, its laptops that get taken.

i only had a break-in once. luckily, i had my laptop with me. my three roommates, however, got theirs stolen. the weirdest part was that the burglar(s) left something: a big plastic bag filled with childrens clothing. what. the. fuck.

Re: Who the hell burglarizes a house nowadays?

Originally Posted by animalius

I guess they were in a hurry. They took some small electronic items. What I'm most pissed off about is they took my computer and the backup disks in my home office.

I thought home burglary has gone out of fashion. Apparently not. I mean, nowadays you can't really get much out of a house. It's not like we have tons of cash in the house. The tv's are too big for them to carry out. There's really not much of value they could take in a regular house nowadays.

Re: Who the hell burglarizes a house nowadays?

My sis had her flat broken into a few years ago. They drilled a hole into her inch and a half thick heavy wooden door, then used an electric jigsaw to saw around the lock. And there was no break in downstairs in the communal front door. And no one in the other flats were 'in' or heard anything....

Re: Who the hell burglarizes a house nowadays?

Originally Posted by animalius

Who the hell burglarizes a house nowadays? I guess they were in a hurry. They took some small electronic items. What I'm most pissed off about is they took my computer and the backup disks in my home office.

I'm guessing it was someone that needed to pay their cell phone bill.

Originally Posted by animalius

I thought home burglary has gone out of fashion. Apparently not. I mean, nowadays you can't really get much out of a house. It's not like we have tons of cash in the house. The tv's are too big for them to carry out. There's really not much of value they could take in a regular house nowadays.

Re: Who the hell burglarizes a house nowadays?

We were broken into last week. The bastards gained entry by forcing a locked window open. Luckily, our house wasn't trashed, but they did take off with a fair bit of jewellery worth about $5,000, some loose change that was in an ash tray on the kitchen bench, a netbook computer, about $200 worth of beer & wine that was in the fridge and, of all things, my old lawnmower that was in the shed! Oddly enough, nothing in the study was touched; that included my camera gear, all my cd's, an ipad and another laptop computer.

We're luckier than some, I guess, but it doesn't lessen the shock you experience when you make the discovery that your house has been broken into and then that awful sense of violation you feel, knowing that complete strangers have been in your house and going through your things. Cunts!!!

Re: Who the hell burglarizes a house nowadays?

My apartment's been burglarized and we live in a crappy neighborhood. The poor stealing from the poor. /smh They didn't get much though, since it's mostly junk and inexpensive things with sentimental value.

Re: Who the hell burglarizes a house nowadays?

Originally Posted by animalius

Haha, this reminds me of my bikes in Chicago. I worked in University of Chicago genetics labs for a while. Had a bike to ride back and forth between my apartment and the labs. Well, one day I came out of work and the bike was gone. They cut through my chains to get the bike. So, I went out to a garage sale and got another bike that was really old looking. This thing was a piece of shit with rust all over it. Didn't think anyone would want it. Well, a couple weeks later some bastard cut the chains and took that as well.

A word of advice for bikers. Get those u-locks.

My classmate had her 3 years old bike stolen 2 weeks ago. Considering that she parked in the same place for years and it's actually near college it's kinda silly that it happened
People these days would still anything.

Re: Who the hell burglarizes a house nowadays?

Originally Posted by animalius

I guess they were in a hurry. They took some small electronic items. What I'm most pissed off about is they took my computer and the backup disks in my home office.

I thought home burglary has gone out of fashion. Apparently not. I mean, nowadays you can't really get much out of a house. It's not like we have tons of cash in the house. The tv's are too big for them to carry out. There's really not much of value they could take in a regular house nowadays.